Japanese earthquake

[gawa316]

Any word on this hitting California?

3.45pm GMT.

With any force?

[Celt_Man]

some of the footage of that Tsunami is bloody terrifying...

Earthquake is the largest one in Japan, 7th largest ever...

Japan has issued it's first Nuclear warning ever....  Talk of a fire at one of their plants... Cooling systems at two of other plants...

jaysus - god help everyone over there

[Tony Baloney]

Reports aren't saying but California's earlier "tsunami watch" has been upgraded to "tsunami warning". They'll know more when it hits Hawaii.

Fire is apparently out at nuclear power plant.

[Kerry Mike]

some of the footage of that Tsunami is bloody terrifying...

Some of the footage of the water tearing accross farmlands and oblittering greenhouses, sheds and houses is unreal, the speed it hit is frightening.

[nifan]

Terrible stuff.
We where in touch with some of Tokyo office this morn, and they where telling us of buildings they could see on fire etc. from our place.

Just hope they all get home OK - the tube network was down, one line has reopened but I cant even imagine the pain of getting that many people around tokyo with no tube these days - it is desperate at the best of times.

[Harold Disgracey]

From the BBC:

1443: Back to Japan now: The official Kyodo news agency is reporting that about 88,000 people are missing.

Doesn't look good.

[bailestil]

When you see the footage, it doesn't look good.
You always hope they have over-estimated the potential causalities, like on Sept 11.

You can prepare for an earthquake but there isn't much you can do but run away from a Tsunami.

[laoislad]

The video footage of the wave moving inland heading straight for a motorway with cars using it is shocking,God help those people.

[orangeman]

Frightening the power of nature.


You'd swear it was a Hollywood movie and the cars / vans were like small scaled models. Houses were being smashed. Lamp posts being bent like match sticks.


SCARY STUFF.

God help those people.

[Tyrones own]

Any word on this hitting California?

3.45pm GMT.

With any force?

Expected here any minute....its low tide and they're only expecting
1-3 feet so shouldn't be too much to worry about.

[paco]

Seen a few shots on CNN there in California of some of the towns that have got tsunami warnings. They said that these are towns where flooding and bad weather conditions are normal occurences, but it was still strange to see people out on deck chairs sitting and waiting for something like that, especially considering the damage it has done already.

[Tyrones own]

Jaysus those videos make for shocking viewing altogether 
God Help them.

[el_cuervo_fc]

Did the boat caught in the whirlpool make it out?

[laoislad]

Some crazy pictures here.
http://www.nytimes.com

[omagh_gael]

This is a crazy situation, the latest from BBC updates:

1908: A magnitude 6.6 quake has now struck in central Japan, AP news agency reports, causing Tokyo buildings to sway. It is not clear if this is connected to the earlier quake and aftershocks. More on this as we get it.